The Times, UK, January 17, 2018: Trawlers head for ban on shock fishing by Ben Webster. MEPs voted by 402 votes to 232 yesterday for a total ban on “pulse fishing”, which the European Commission says needs to be used partly in order to study its impact. Our Fish,...

January 16, 2018: Defying Brussels, EU parliament calls for ban on electric pulse fishing The European Parliament called Tuesday for a ban on electric pulse fishing in the European Union, defying Brussels which wants the experimental practice in the North Sea done on...

From Undercurrent, 16 January 2018: Members of European parliament have voted in favor of prohibiting electric pulse fishing in European waters, at the technical measures regulation vote on Jan. 16. MEPs voted 402 to 232 for the prohibition, according to NGO Our Fish....

By Fiona Harvey in the Guardian, January 16th, 2018: Rebecca Hubbard, programme director of Our Fish, one of a group of conservation groups lobbying for the EU pulse fishing ban to be reinstated, told the Guardian: “Pulse fishing is not proven to be better than bottom...

Undercurrent article from January 9 2018, based on this press release. As the European Parliament prepares to vote on whether to restore the 1998 ban on electric fishing, or to authorize its wide use throughout Europe, a group of NGOs and fisher organizations have...